The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

Believe in yourself, refuse to waiver! Once you control your mind, you control your DESTINY here on earth.

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.